Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arms Are Extra. The cost of hitting hard, Hoffman declared, would be $4,280,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1. This was $730 million less than the $5,010,000,000 spent in ECA's first twelve months of operation ending April 1. For the three-month gap from April 1 to the start of the new fiscal year on July i, Hoffman asked an additional $1,150,000,000. These figures did not include military aid to Greece and Turkey, nor aid to China, which is now on a "day-to-day" basis...
...Hartley Act a swift knockout collapsed. The Labor and Public Welfare Committee had been holding day & night sessions to speed the repealer bill, finally had to extend public hearings for two more weeks. It was a serious blow to labor. Many labor contracts will come up for renegotiation in April, and labor had hoped that by then a modified Wagner Act would have replaced the Taft-Hartley Act on the books. That now looked unlikely...
Outside the house, under red-blossomed camellia trees, old women were cutting dandelions for spring greens-and coarser weeds for nanny goats carefully tethered by the front porch. Nearby were bamboo groves where old plants are grown for fuel and new shoots are cut like asparagus in April...
...Until Koerner's paintings were first exhibited in Berlin (TIME, April 28, 1947), his work was virtually unknown...
...That, through Carlos A. Arosmena '49, he told the Crimson Key members Wednesday night that they could have April 23 as the date for an all-College dance, although that date was already assigned to the class of '51 dance...